1 Clement 3.3

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: The young rose up against their elders.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:12

οὕτως ἐπηγέρθησαν οἱ ἄτιμοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐντίμους, οἱ ἄδοξοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνδόξους, οἱ ἄφρονες ἐπὶ τοὺς φρονίμους, οἱ νέοι ἐπὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους.

English · Claude translation

So the dishonored rose up against the honored, the disreputable against the reputable, the foolish against the wise, the young against the older.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:12 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · That translation lacks 57.7–63.4 (a missing leaf in its manuscript); vol. 9 (1896) translates the complete text.

Scripture

Isa 3:5 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

“The older” (τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους): the word also means “presbyters,” and the double sense is probably intended (compare 44.5; 47.6).

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 3.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/3/3/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 3.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/3/3/).

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